Person:Andrew Christy (3)

Research notes

• Andrew Jr. came to Illinois and entered the 77 1/2 acres of the family homestead. The Illinois public land database lists a purchase by Andrew Christy Jr., on 7/27/1824 in Lawrence county.

1. ↑ Liberty Township, in History of Saline County, Missouri: including a history of its townships, cities, towns and villages. (St. Louis, Missouri: Missouri Historical, 1881)
   711.

   Francis M Christy ... In 1861 he went to St. Louis, where he attended a commercial school. He went to Washington City, where through his uncle, he got employment as collector on a ferry. His uncle, Andrew Christy, one of the early residents of St. Louis, and largely interested in the Wiggins Ferry Company, died about this time, leaving an estate of nearly one and one-half millions of dollars, and being one of the executors, he returned, of course, to St. Louis. ...

2.   [1].

   Andrew Christy Jr. was a school teacher for a while before going into business with Vital Jarrot, son of Nicholas. He and brother Samuel later formed part of a partnership that owned the Wiggins Ferry service. The steamship ferry company grew to become a monopoly in the business of transporting goods and services between the growing areas of St. Louis, MO and East St. Louis, IL. After Samuel died in 1836, Andrew went on to acquire more business interests in St. Louis and became an active civic leader as well as a wealthy and prominent citizen of St. Louis before his death in 1869. He never married.